Entrants of the Shanghai winter pigeon racing competition meet at the underground car park at Hongkou Stadium in Zhabei district, Shanghai. Here, entrants hand in their piegons they want to race, they get filed, tagged, and stamped and placed into cages which are then put onto special trucks. The trucks are then driven over 500km away to Linyi city in Shangdong province where the pigeons are then released. This competition attracted around 7000 pigeon entries. China.